Bug 69103 - A mechanism to share preferences with a team
Summary: A mechanism to share preferences with a team
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 59258
Alias: None
Product: JDT
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Core (show other bugs)
Version: 3.0   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: 3.1 M1   Edit
Assignee: JDT-Core-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2004-06-30 21:54 EDT by Keith Yarbrough CLA
Modified: 2005-01-11 11:02 EST (History)
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Description Keith Yarbrough CLA 2004-06-30 21:54:41 EDT 
The preferences are an ideal candidate to promote to a team level.

That is, after a company or group has settled on the dizzying set of prefences 
for code generation, editor, etc., it would be fantastic to be able to 
automatically make those preferences immediately seen by all Eclipse users in 
the group.

The mechanism could be by allowing a URL to be configured in the IDE.  The URL 
would point to the shared preferences file.  

Alternatively, the preferences could be loaded from a known file in the 
project, very similar to the .project and .classpath files.
Comment 1 Timo Kamph CLA 2004-07-03 10:47:33 EDT 
This would be a very nice feature. I was going to submit the same feature
request as i found this one.

But to work effectively it is important to be able to distribute just a subset
of the preferences. E.g. define the code formatter and compiler settings
groupwide while leaving the appearance settings to the individual user/developer.
Comment 2 Philipe Mulet CLA 2004-07-03 11:53:33 EDT 
We did address this one in our Cheetah effort.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 59258 ***